tabellion

From Latin tabelliō.

• Rhymes: -ɛliən

tabellion (plural tabellions)

1. (historical) An official scribe who had some of the minor functions of a notary in the Roman Empire and pre-revolutionary France.

• notary
• scrivener

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “tabellion”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• ballotine

Borrowed from Latin tabelliōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ta.bɛ.ljɔ̃/ ~ /ta.be.ljɔ̃/

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tabellion m (plural tabellions)

1. (historical) tabellion
2. (derogatory) lawyer, solicitor

• “tabellion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.